Category: ABO Pedagogy Share Archive

Final Project Assignment Sheet Working in groups of two or three, write an imaginary dialogue among two or more eighteenth-century characters or authors. You may select from any author we have read or any character in the plays, poems, essays, or novels we have read. Each student will research biographical, cultural, and critical background information…

ENGL 2921H Topics in Literature: Novel Heroines and the Performance of Femininity in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century British Fiction Course Description: This course asks how heroines in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British fiction comment on contemporary debates about women’s nature and roles. Throughout the semester, we will focus on the ways our subjects reinforce, question, reject or…

EN 2348 Spring 2008 Course Description: This course examines the courtship novel – a specific type of novel that treats the time between a young woman’s entrance into society and her marriage as the most important time in her life. One could argue that courtship novels are still being written today; however, we’re going to…

EN 2348 Spring 2008: The Courtship Novel in England The Research Assignment Early in the semester I will arbitrarily divide you into groups. Each group will be assigned a particular topic and a particular novel. Each person in the group will be responsible for writing a summary of a text I assign that pertains to the topic. As a…

First-Year Seminar/Spring 2011 Paper #3/Creative Project Creative Project (50%): Construct a creative response to one or more of the texts on the syllabus or to one or more of the significant ideas or themes that we have been discussing in class in the medium or media of your choice. In the past, students have offered…

First-Year Seminar/Spring 2011 Course Description: Students in First-Year Seminars will develop their skills in critical reading and analysis, writing, and effective speaking. They will assess and use textual evidence in support of oral and written arguments. Finally, they will explore important issues through significant texts ranging across genres, disciplines, and historical periods. The object of “Reinventing…

Women, Money, and the Novel: Studies in Frances Burney and Jane Austen Winter Term 2010-11 Course Description: This course will study the rise of the woman novelist in the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century, using Frances Burney and Jane Austen as case studies for an analysis of the relationship between gender, economics, and…

Syllabus: Women and the Enlightenment: Readings in Intellectual and Literary History, 1660-1800 Fall 2011 If all men are born free, how is it that all Women are born slaves? Mary Astell, “Preface,” Some Reflections Upon Marriage (1706) Course Description: Enlightenment writers imagined a world transformed by human endeavour–both intellectual and practical. This course will study women’s…

Search

Announcements

Are you participating in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)? Writing about the 18th century? Share your work with us! We’d like to feature 18th-century-themed original fiction for the month of November. Submit a synopsis of your work and a 750-1000 word excerpt to lstuart@gardner-webb.edu. Your novel could be featured in a special NaNoWriMo post.

Editor’s Notes

When I first volunteered to work with our parent journal, ABO (which was then stillAphra Behn Online), I had a smattering of web design experience and the belief that the academy was ready to stretch beyond the paperbound paradigm that defined the best scholarship. I was lucky enough to work with two talented and passionate…